{"id":1125,"date":"2021-03-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:35:08","slug":"save-the-date-makit-in-the-africa2020-season-23-24-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/2021\/03\/15\/save-the-date-makit-in-the-africa2020-season-23-24-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MAK\u2019IT in the AFRICA2020 season (23-24 MARCH 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initiated by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, and led by N\u2019Gon\u00e9 Fall, its Commissioner General, the Africa2020 Season, postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is a pan-African and multidisciplinary project, focusing on innovation in the arts, sciences, technologies, entrepreneurship and the economy. Conceived as an invitation to look at and understand the world from an African perspective, it aims to be a sounding board for the agents of change that impact contemporary societies around the major challenges of the 21st century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK\u2019IT) has been invited to participate in the Africa2020 Season and is organising, in collaboration with the UNESCO International Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics and the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, a series of virtual events on 23 and 24 March 2021, under the common theme of \u00ab Feed \u2013 Protect \u2013 Care: Africa at the heart of global transitions \u00bb. These events will feature leading African personalities \u2013 scientists, artists, chefs, entrepreneurs, representatives of international organisations \u2013 and will give us a chance to hear what young people have to say. They will also highlight the long tradition of hospitality, exchanges and cooperation that Montpellier and its scientific communities have established with the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday 23 March 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30 \u2013 12:00 \u201cWater to feed, protect and care Africa\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Event organised with the UNESCO International Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young researchers from the African continent, working with the water community in Montpellier, will answer questions asked in the form of short videos by young Africans in the field, who are direct witnesses of the challenges linked to water on the continent around the 3 pilars \u00ab feed \u2013 protect \u2013 care \u00bb. The young researchers will use this opportunity to present their individual experiences as well as collective projects led in collaboration with Montpellier, which will be debated during a final science-society sequence, in which the event participants will have the opportunity to intervene directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Moderation:Amar Imache<\/strong>, co-founder of Lisode
Introduction byMarcel Kuper<\/strong>&Caroline Lejars<\/strong>, Direction of JRU G-EAU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 1: Water to feed Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Video \u00ab Supplementary irrigation: living and producing in the lowlands of Burkina Faso \u00bb \u2013 Comments by Rahim Ouedraogo, PhD student at the Montpellier Graduate School of Economics and Management
\u2013 Video \u00ab Against the grain: agroecological practices in Kairouan, Tunisia \u00bb with the contribution of Fatah Ameur, researcher, Research Center in Applied Economics for Development (CREAD) in Algiers, Algeria \u2013 Comments by Kolad\u00e9 Akakpo, PhD student in earth and water sciences at Montpellier SupAgro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sequence 2: Water to protect Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Video \u00ab Sustainable oases \u00bb \u2013 Comments by Intissar Ferchichi, researcher at the National Research Institute of Rural Engineering and Forestry in Tunis, Tunisia
\u2013 Video \u00ab Feet in the water in Abidjan: a fatality? \u00bb with the contribution of Aristide Douagui, lecturer at the University of Nangui Abrogoua (UNA) in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Kouam\u00e9 Auguste Kouassi, UNA  J\u00e9r\u00f4me Williams Loebe, entrepreneur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sequence 3: Water to care Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Video \u00ab Gold mining and health risks in West Africa \u00bb \u2013 Reaction of Oumar-El- Farouk Maman-Illatou, PhD student at Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey, Niger and at IMT Mines in Al\u00e8s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roundtable: Meeting the water challenges in Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the participation of Aki\u00e7a Bahri, former Minister of Agriculture of Tunisia and Eric Servat, representative of the UNESCO Water Centre in Montpellier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REGISTER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00 \u2013 15:30 \u201cTomorrow\u2019s Africa: let\u2019s imagine\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lecture by Achille Mbembe<\/a>\u00a0moderated by Estienne Rodary<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00 \u2013 18:00 \u201cFeeding the imagination\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Event organised with the UNESCO Chair on World Food Systems<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this virtual roundtable, participants will share a personal story about an object (food, dish, food container, painting, fabric, etc.), emblematic for them of the African relationship to food and illustrating the 3 challenges \u2018feed \u2013 protect \u2013 care\u2019. World-renowned artists and chefs as well as researchers from the African continent will then exchange their vision and points of view during a lively science-society debate with all the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2013  Emeka Ogboh<\/strong><\/a>, Artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013  Anto Cocagne<\/strong><\/a>, Chef in Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013  Pierre Thiam<\/strong><\/a>, Chef in New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013  Hayat Zirari<\/strong><\/a>, Anthropologist, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013  Estelle Kouokam<\/strong><\/a>, Anthropologist, Catholic University of Yaounde, Cameroun<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday 24 March 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00 \u2013 12:00 \u201cBuilding tomorrow\u2019s intelligence together\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What are the stakes and modalities of a research-based development focused on strengthening African scientific communities?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emergence of global issues that concern both the \u2018Global South\u2019 and the \u2018Global North\u2019 invites us to go beyond the idea of development as simply catching-up technically to improve economic growth. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development bear witness to this. In this context, science\u2019s role and expectations are changing significantly. More than ever, the scientific communities are being called upon to do more than just contribute to immediate technical solutions; they are invited, and sometimes invite themselves, to act in conjunction with development actors to shed light on the complex processes underway, to formulate and address the issues that will arise in the future, to experiment with new policy paths as well as to identify possible blockages. The ambition of a research-based development relies on the conviction that the transfer of knowledge from the best laboratories in the world is insufficient and that the society itself must participate in knowledge production in order to imagine and build its future. Such a position calls for the strengthening of the capacities of scientific institutions in all countries, so that they are fully involved in international initiatives and able to better contribute to the challenges that their countries are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montpellier\u2019s scientific communities, grouped together in the \u2018Montpellier University of Excellence\u2019 initiative around the three challenges \u2018Feed \u2013 Protect \u2013 Care\u2019, place special emphasis on the partnership with Africa, based on a long tradition of hospitality, exchanges and cooperation. This virtual roundtable will highlight some of these partnerships and focus on the challenges of strengthening African scientific communities for the joint construction of tomorrow\u2019s intelligence and world. Several Q&A sessions with the webinar participants will be organised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers:<\/strong>
\u2013Mich\u00e8le Mbo\u2019o-Tchouawou<\/strong><\/a>,Deputy Director, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)
\u2013Alpha Kabinet Keita<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Training in Infectious Diseases (CERFIG), Guinea
\u2013Prisca Mugabe<\/strong><\/a>, MAK\u2019IT Visiting Scientist and Deputy Dean of the University of Zimbabwe
\u2013Philippe Petithuguenin<\/strong><\/a>, CIRAD Deputy Director General for Research and Strategy
\u2013Mahama Tawat<\/strong><\/a>, MAK\u2019IT Visiting Fellow in Comparative Politics, attached to the Institute for Research, Socio-Economic Development and Communication (IRESCO) of Cameroun<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00 \u2013 16:00 \u201cWriting the history of the world in Africa\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

How can we meet the challenges of \u2018Feed, Protect, Care\u2019 in Africa in the context of intense health, demographic and climatic transitions?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the intensity of the transformations that have taken place and will continue to take place in Africa in the coming years and decades, it is clear that it is on this continent that the future of the world will be written. While the demographic transition is a completed process elsewhere, it is taking shape in Africa in unprecedented ways. The increase will be twice as intense as elsewhere. It will have taken 250 years for the world\u2019s population to multiply by 10, 150 years in Africa. This transition will also occur in an unprecedented context, marked by strong urbanisation, the evolution of the agricultural sector and the difficulties of absorbing rural employment by the economic sector as well as the increasingly visible impacts of climate change. Accentuated by the current pandemic, the successive crises are accelerating vulnerabilities and increasing, as much as they reveal, the strong uncertainties to come. This very particular configuration leads Africa to invent new ways forward, which will have necessarily to be multiple as the diversity of situations is so great in this immense continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This virtual round table will discuss the particular links between the agri-food, environmental and health challenges in Africa. The speakers will share ideas to better understand, support and accelerate the transitions to be implemented on the African continent in order to guarantee access to quality food, to preserve ecosystems and to improve the overall health of its populations. There will be several Q&A sessions with webinar participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013Fred Eboko<\/strong><\/a>, Socio-politologist, IRD representative in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire
\u2013Lindiwe Sibanda<\/strong>,<\/a>Director of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)
\u2013Jean-Michel Sourisseau<\/strong><\/a>, Socio-Economist, Deputy Director of JRU ART-Dev, CIRAD
\u2013Camilla Toulmin<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Research Associate at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Chair of MAK\u2019IT Scientific Council
\u2013Sarah Toumi<\/strong><\/a>, Founder and Executive Director, Acacias for All and Dream in Tunisia<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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